Burma: protesters use ingenuity to counter military repression

Demonstration in Rangoon, Tuesday March 2, 2021. AP

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In Burma, protests continue in the streets of the country, and every day the demonstrators show a little more creativity than the day before in countering the military repression. 

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The Burmese are redoubling their ingenuity to face the military peacefully.

Latest invention: women began to tie their long skirts, called longyi, on the electric cables of the city centers because this prevents the advance of the armed forces which, by superstition, do not approach the clothes of women. 

Senior, often very conservative, officers also believe that going under these skirts will hurt their success on the front line.

Protesters regularly dot the ground with portraits of General Min Aung Hlaing, the coup leader, as the soldiers do everything they can not to step on them.

This gave another idea to women in the north of the country: to hang their bras, to which they stuck these same photos, all over the streets in order to push back the armed forces. 

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Streets in Yangon have been blocked off making it look like false car breakdowns, and recently protesters have been circling police cars at crossroads, suddenly stopping to tie their laces, all in at the same time, thus innocently stopping the traffic for a few minutes before resuming their journey. 

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